Confucius,+Mencius+et+al

=Wang Renfei and Wang Wanxin are in charge of this page= = = = = =Confucius & Mencius= --who's confucius? **Confucius's Educational Theory**
 * Confucius** (Chinese: 孔夫子; pinyin: Kǒng Fūzǐ; Wade-Giles: K'ung-fu-tzu), lit. "//Master Kong,//"(traditionally September 28, 551 BC – 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Vietnamese thought and life.
 * 1) **Theory of value:** selection of knowledge and skills that is worth learning. Reflecting on the goals of education.
 * 2) **Theory of knowledge**: what is knowledge and sufficient knowledge? -that acquiring knowledge is not simply studying many things and remembering them, but rather to string them together with one’s principle of mind
 * 3) **Theory of Human Nature:** // The limits of human potential, the nature of the human being. //
 * 4) **Theory of Learning:** // What is learning? How are skills and knowledge acquired? // Learning as a highly personal and therefore, highly individual activity.
 * 5) **Theory** **of Transmission:** // Who is to teach? By what methods? What will the curriculum be? //// Kong //himself is very informal, and had lessons tailored to the individual. He did not use structured classes.
 * 6) **Theory of Society:** // What is society? What institutions are involved in the educational process? Society begins with individual as model for family, which is in turn model for community, state, country and finally other countries. //
 * 7) **Theory of** **Opportunity****:** // Who is to be educated? Who is to be schooled? // Confucius proposes that education would vary according to one's own nature and abilities. But he would not teach "dullards", and would "only teach those who were bursting with eagerness for enlightenment."

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